Polish intellectual and diplomat Adam Daniel Rotfeld played a key role in creating a new system of international security in the enlarged European Union. He contributed to settling the Transnistria conflict in the 1990s, helped resolve the political crisis in Ukraine during the Orange Revolution in

Natural gas giant PGNiG signed a 2017-2019 natural gas supply contract with steel producer ArcelorMittal Poland with an option of extension by another three years that would put the value of the deal to ca. PLN 1.4 billion, PGNiG said on its website.

Demand for housing loans in the Polish banking sector jumped by 41.5% year on year in January, while demand for consumer loans increased only marginally, by 0.7% y/y, Poland's credit information bureau BIK said.

Poland's Finance Ministry wants to expand the draft bill on monitoring cargo shipments within the country by allowing undefined institutions concerned with public safety to collect data on road traffic according to the amendment prepared at the ministry.

Chemicals firm Police, a unit of Grupa Azoty, wrote down the value of its investments in African phosphate assets via its unit African Investment Group (AFRIG), including PLN 283.6 million asset impairment on phosphate deposits alone, the company said in a market filing.

mBank, the unit of Germany's Commerzbank, suffered a 5.5% year on year decline in fourth quarter earnings to beat consensus with a PLN 292.5 million Q4 attributable net profit, the bank's financial report and earnings presentation out Wednesday showed.

Copper giant KGHM will invest some PLN 240 millio into its smelter in Legnica, which will enable an increase of copper cathodes production by 40% to 160,000 tons as of 2020, the company said in a press statement.

The Polish government should increase its defense spending to 3% of GDP, the leader of Poland's governing party Law and Justice (PiS), Jaroslaw Kaczynski said in an interview for the weekly Gazeta Polska.